Mythic frontiers : remembering, forgetting, and profiting with cultural heritage tourism

Mythic frontiers : remembering, forgetting, and profiting with cultural heritage tourism / Daniel R. Maher ; foreword by Paul A. Shackel.

This is a study of the creation of Fort Smith, Arkansas, an imagined Wild West town for tourists complete with Native Americans, nineteenth-century hangings, prostitutes, and bootleggers.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maher, Daniel R. (Author)
Other Authors: Shackel, Paul A. (writer of foreword.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Series:Cultural heritage studies.
Subjects:
Heritage tourism > Arkansas > Fort Smith.
Culture and tourism > Arkansas > Fort Smith.
Tourism > Arkansas > Fort Smith.
Frontier and pioneer life > Arkansas > Fort Smith.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Culture and tourism
Frontier and pioneer life
Heritage tourism
Historiography
Tourism
Fort Smith (Ark.) > Historiography.
Arkansas > Fort Smith
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